Nook Tablet gets easy root shortcut via SD card (video)
As the (admittedly niche) battle for root access wages on between the Nook Tablet creators and its end users, a new shortcut’s been discovered for unlocking the Android-based slab — and you’ll need an SD card to do the business. The new technique, courtesy of xda-developers forum member Indirect , works on all tablets up to version 1.4.1, requiring the installation of some key files onto the card and a reboot to unleash the might of Google’s Android Market
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SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users
Wouldn’t it be absolutely splendid if you could hand your phone over to a friend (or complete stranger) without fear of them mucking up your system or digging into your personal bits? Yes, we’d absolutely love to see guest accounts become standard issue on all handsets, but until that day arrives, a new application called SwitchMe will work in a pinch.
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SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users
Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn’t
Back in 2010, the US Copyright Office added a set of anti-circumvention exemptions to the DMCA , effectively making it legal for smartphone users to jailbreak and/or root their devices.
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Kindle Fire firmware update 6.2.2 brings full-screen browsing
The fine folks over at Amazon have further flushed out the firmware on its fiercely popular Fire tablet.
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Kindle Fire firmware update 6.2.2 brings full-screen browsing
Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus gets one-click root and unlock
You’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Nexus . You’re eager to root and unlock it, but don’t want to acquire carpal tunnel in the process? Listen up: a one-click root and unlock tool has been posted to the forums over at AndroidCentral .
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Transformer Prime falls at the hands of XDA dev, rooted
‘Twas just days ago that we reported upon developer uproar over the locked bootloader currently taking up residence on the ASUS Transformer Prime — and now it looks like some of that pain has been alleviated. A tinkerer over at xda-developers has published viperMOD Primer to help you easily root — or unroot — your shiny new laptop-tablet hybrid
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Transformer Prime falls at the hands of XDA dev, rooted
RIM puts BlackBerry Playbook on massive sale; Android Market shoehorned onto rooted units
Research in Motion may not have found itself in a coveted spot as 2011 ended, but if it’s learned anything from HP, there’s a surefire way to rid itself of remaining BlackBerry PlayBook inventory: sell ‘em for a loss . After the unloved slate went on sale in its native land, Americans can now save up to $400 on a PlayBook through February 4th.
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Kindle Fire root reignited, beats 6.2.1 update
Amazon’s latest attempt to lock down root access on its Kindle Fire has been, well, routed. It took the tinkerers mere days to catch up and the new root file is now up for grabs, courtesy of Android Police and a few good devs.
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Team Win Recovery Project 2.0 goes gold, tells your volume rocker to kiss off
It took a little longer than we would have hoped, or initially anticipated, but Team Win Recovery Project 2.0 is finally here and ready for mass consumption.
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Yifan Lu jailbreaks Kindle Touch, uses a special MP3 file to do so (video)
We’ve seen a fair share of Kindle Jailbreaks over the past few years, but Yifan Lu’s (evidently the first) for the Kindle Touch is certainly novel in its approach. As The Digital Reader points out, a sizeable chunk of the Touch’s software is essentially a string of pseudo HTML5 and JavaScript webpages — differentiating it from Kindles prior — which led Lu to notice an exploit rooted in its browser.
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Yifan Lu jailbreaks Kindle Touch, uses a special MP3 file to do so (video)